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Thunderbird master password reset Posted: 24 Sep 2011 10:36 PM PDT I recently had a customer call to ask if I could setup their email client. I couldn’t see why they would need this, as they seemed competent enough. Anyway, when I arrived, I was told that a well-meaning employee had tried to setup Mozilla Thunderbird, but did not get anywhere. When I started Thunderbird, I was asked for a master password as soon as I tried to do something meaningful (eg complete setting up an email account, or changing the settings of an existing account). It was annoying, as I could make all the changes I needed, but as soon as I tried to save the changes, I’d get the master password dialog box. Since nobody knew the master password, I decided to find out how to reset the password. I soon found the trick: Start Thunderbird -> tools -> error console -> paste the expression openDialog("chrome://pippki/content/resetpassword.xul")-> evaluate button Please note that there is a very real possibility that you will lose any other stored passwords… But this wasn’t an issue in this case, as it was a new account. Related posts: Setup thunderbird email to use gmail (incoming and outgoing) connection to SMTP server was lost in the middle of the transaction Reset / clear a forgotten windows password

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